The book starts with an outline of our growing problem with obesity the causes, the consequences, and the solutions tried to date. It answers questions such as: What led to the explosive increase in obesity starting in the late 1970s?
Is being overweight really as bad for your health as “they” say? And what about the safety and efficacy of nonlifestyle approaches, such as stomach stapling, diet drugs, and weight-loss supplements?
Then, in my attempt to build the optimal weight-loss strategy from scratch, I spend part II exploring all the key ingredients that might go into creating the ideal recipe for losing body fat.
We see how all the diets out there stack up against this list of criteria, and we piece together the foremost formula for healthy, sustainable weight control. You also get the tools to be able to assess all the newer-than-new diets that haven’t even come out yet.
Is Being Overweight Really Bad for Your Health as They Say?
Fast-tracking weight loss that I’ve found through my years of scouring the medical literature. These are ways in which any diet can be modified to maximize the dissolution of body fat.
I arrange the boosters in a simple daily checklist so you can pick and choose a portfolio of techniques that works best for you. I have to warn against skipping to this section and going for the quick fixes while continuing to eat the same crappy foods.
Though there are indeed different ways to eat the same foods to achieve better results, the boosters arestrictly meant to be adjuncts to a healthy diet.
Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight loss fad―and yet obesity rates continue to rise, and with it a growing number of diseases and health problems. It’s time for a different approach.
Enter Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of the Nutrition Facts website. Author of the mega bestselling How Not to Die, Dr. Greger now turns his attention to the latest research on the leading causes―and remedies―of obesity.
Dr. Greger hones in on the optimal criteria to enable weight loss, while considering how these foods actually affect our health and longevity.
He lays out the key ingredients of the ideal weight-loss diet―factors such as calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our gut microbiome―showing how plant-based eating is crucial to our success.
But How Not to Diet goes beyond food to identify twenty-one weight-loss accelerators available to our bodies, incorporating the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities.
Dr. Greger builds the ultimate weight loss guide from the ground up, taking a timeless, proactive approach that can stand up to any new trend.
Chock full of actionable advice and groundbreaking dietary research, How Not to Diet will put an end to dieting―and replace those constant weight-loss struggles with a simple, healthy, sustainable lifestyle.
Dr. Greger hones in on the optimal criteria to enable weight loss, while considering how these foods actually affect our health and longevity.
He lays out the key ingredients of the ideal weight-loss diet - factors such as calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our gut microbiome - showing how plant-based eating is crucial to our success.
Dr. Greger builds the ultimate weight-loss guide from the ground up, taking a timeless, proactive approach that can stand up to any new trend.
Chock full of actionable advice and groundbreaking dietary research, How Not to Diet will put an end to dieting - and replace those constant weight-loss struggles with a simple, healthy, sustainable lifestyle. One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection to keep.
